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It burns ..

My CPU holds at about 53° C, which is probably low since I have a low speed fan on an cheap aluminum heat sink. Its not a worry unless you have stability problems or want to overclock. Its very well under the max spec for the processor (something like 85°). I think P4 throttling starts...
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- Post #11
- May 11, 2003
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Is there a definitive "best way" to partition an HD for speed purposes?

I have 2 gigs for windows and its essentials and 28 gigs for all my programs and such. I find it convenient, especially when windows fubared and I had to reformat C:.....
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- Post #11
- Mar 18, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Dead chipset Fan

I've been running my comp for well over a year with a broken northbridge fan, and it gets up to a toasty 26C some days....
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- Post #6
- Mar 18, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Mobo has SATA RAID, but no ATA RAID... what to do?

"High cost for for slight performance difference" SLIGHT performance difference !? your telling me 7 pins vs. 80 pins is a SLIGHT difference? of course drive performance SATA/PATA are the same, but NO RIBBON CABLES! I hate those things.....
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- Post #13
- Mar 16, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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GeForce3 Ti200 Passive Cooling?

I'm having fun quieting my computer here and I've got a question... can my GeForce3 Ti200 run without that little fan? I've got pretty decent airflow (I think); the northbridge is running at 26C. Are there any good tests for the stability of the GPU or something I can try too? I'll underclock...
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- Mar 11, 2003
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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anyone know where to find a nice black case?

KT-436B has received excellent reveiws, and the inside is even anodized black I beleive... I'm buying the windowed version as soon as I save up enough money myself :)
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- Post #4
- Mar 7, 2003
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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rear fan ducted to cool a cpu help

I've done a few experiments with ducting my CPU, XP 1800+. It started off a 'cool' 56 degrees C. The fan(80mm Vantec Stealth) was originally blowing air onto the cheap coolermaster aluminum heatsink, because my tests showed the temps about 2 or 3 degrees cooler than pulling away. So, rather...
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- Post #15
- Mar 7, 2003
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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HD Noise Question

Both of my hard drives where whining, so I suspension mounted them (see www.7volts.com or www.silentpcreview.com), using two peices of soft foam. The difference is like night and day.. before, I could barely hear my fans over the hard drives, now, I can't hear the hard drives over the fans.
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- Post #18
- Mar 7, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Case Advice

I'm thinking about building a new computer soon here, and this time around, I have different priorities. #1 priority is it has to be quiet; #2 is it has to look cool :) From the anand reviews, I liked the Kingwin KT-436 (Review). I'd like other suggestions for a roomy, quiet, case that looks...
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- Feb 19, 2003
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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56degrees ok?

My processor runs 64C under load, 1800+ The only problem I've had involved short circuiting the 12V and 5V lines modding a fan.... oops! :o The bright side is I'm running it with a cheap aluminum hs, some crappy thermal pad that was on it, and a Vantec Stealth 80mm fan with a 60mm to 80mm...
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- Post #12
- Feb 19, 2003
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Silent Computers

As Ouloat said, Dells are SILENT. I'll give you a hint to their silence- the case fan is an NMB. I'm using one for my case now too- their $2.50 on www.svc.com right now, and while they don't move a whole lot of air, you cannot hear it.
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- Post #10
- Feb 19, 2003
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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OMG Tom's hardware hit the crack pipe hard! 65 CPU round up from 100 mhz to 3066

At first I thought this was crazily pointless. But then I realized what a gold mine of information this is. Its a collection of data perfect for a task my parents are concerned about at their office right now- is upgrading ancient computer x worth the money? For the P2 333s I replaced it was a...
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- Post #25
- Feb 17, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Toms: Valentines Day Special *Lots of AMD Bashing*

Its Odim's crowning moment! Someone agrees with him! http://www.overclockers.com/articles703/ . I still look at THG frequently myself; I like their news section, and now their stuff on games. But.... If ego could cool computers they could run a P4 at 4.4 GHz without a heatsink....
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- Post #52
- Feb 16, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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AMD will die within five years

The thing about the Opteron is it's not targeted for joe sixpack. Servers, Supercomputing, high-end workstations; these are the targets of the Opteron. AMD already has a strong presence in supercomputing for sure, and while I don't have any experience with the other two, I beleive they have...
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- Post #93
- Feb 13, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building

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